2020-10-30 Aries Framework JS Meeting notes

Date

30 Oct 2020

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Attendees

• Timo Glastra (Animo) <timo@animo.id>
• Jakub Koci (Absa) <jakub.koci@gmail.com>
• shonjs (KBA) <rush2shon@gmail.com>

Status updates

• Issue credential protocol
  • Issue credential merged
  • Still needed:
    • Start with credential proposal
    • advanced threading
    • validation of protocol state
    • validate credential preview against actual credential
• Present proof protocol
  • First PR for presentation request message opened
• AFJ ↔ React Native
  • https://github.com/TimoGlastra/aries-mobile-agent-javascript
  • Erros thrown by rn-indy-sdk do not match errors thrown by indy
• Started work on `@types/indy-sdk`
  • DefinitelyType will be updated instantly, adding to indy-sdk repo limits us to their release cycle
  • I hope this would also allow us to reuse the types for rn-indy-sdk 
  • https://github.com/TimoGlastra/DefinitelyTyped/tree/%40types/indy-sdk/types/indy-sdk

Agenda

• Record the meeting
• Issue credential PR's
• `@types/indy-sdk` possible approaches
• rn-indy-sdk doesn't work well with error handling
  • E.g. can't "catch" a `WalletAlreadyExistsError`
  • https://github.com/TimoGlastra/aries-mobile-agent-javascript

Meeting Notes

• rn-indy-sdk doesn't work well with error handling
  • See: https://github.com/AbsaOSS/rn-indy-sdk/issues/21
• Timo Glastra will create description of different `@types/indy-sdk` approaches

Future topics

• State machines